Pocket cigarette-making device



(No Model.)

B. G. LANE. POCKET CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE.

No. 581,560. Patented Apr. 27, 1897.

IQq-l.

. INVENTOR a/ru/ TTOHNEYS.

ypn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EDXVARD GEO. LANE, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

POCKET CIGARETTE-MAKING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,560, dated April27, 1897. Application filed June 6, 1896. Serial No. 594,472. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD Gnonon LANE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Cigarette-MakingDevices, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to an improvement in pocket cigarette-makingdevices, the ob ject of the invention being to provide an article ofthis character adaptable for making cigarettes of a uniform size in sucha manner as to avoid wasting any of the material used.

The device is simple in construction, iuexpensive, and durable.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically setforth in the a11- neXed claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective view of my improved device, showing a plunger,forming part thereof, removed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thefilling-cylinder, forming part of the device. Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional elevation of the device; and Fig. 4: is a vertical sectionalelevation of a portion thereof, showing a cigarette made and ready forremoval.

In the practice of my invention I provide a tubular casing A, preferablyof sheet metal. This said casing is adapted to be closed at its lowerend by means of a cap A, which said cap fits snugly over the lower endof the said casing.

The cap is provided upon its inner surface with an annular projectionCL, which forms a shoulder for engagement with the lower edge of thecasing A, whereby an even annular compartment is provided from the headof the cap to the upper edge of the casing when the two said parts areadjusted to each other, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

At the upper edge of the casing A, I provide an L-shaped slotc, which isadapted for engagement with a pin 1), which is extended radially from atube B, which said tube is supplied at its upper end with a conicalreceiver B.

In the operation of the device a sheet of paper 0 is wrapped around thetube B to form a cylinder for retaining the tobacco, and preferably theedge e of the said sheet 0 should be moistened or mucilaged, whereby itwill adhere to the body of the cylinder when it is completely rolled.Having rolled the paper upon the tube B, the projecting end 0 of thecylinder thus formed should be turned over, whereby a head 0 isprovided. Having thus formed the paper cylinder, the tube B and the saidcylinder are inserted within the casing A until the head of the papercylinder is forced against the inner surface of the head of the cap A.The tube is then revolved until its projection 11 is in engagement withthe horizontal portion of the L-shaped slot at of the casing A, wherebythe parts are securely locked to each other. The tube B is then suppliedwith a filling of tobacco 0 through the medium of the funnel B, and thissaid filling of tobacco is then packed down tightly by means of aplunger A after which the plunger and the tube B are removed, wherebythe tobacco filling G will be transferred to the paper cylinder, thusforming a completed cigarette, which is retained within the casing A, asillustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. To remove the cigarette from thesaid casing, it is simply necessary to disengage the cap A from the endthereof and pull the cigarette out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a cylindrical casing having a removable cap on thelower end thereof, and a tubular feeder having a flaring mouth thereonand means for locking the feeder and casing to each other, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. The combination of a cylindrical casing having a removable capthereon and an L- shaped slot in the outer end thereof; with a tubularfeeder having a pin projected therefrom for engagement with the saidslot, said feeder being supplied with a flaring mouth for receiving acharge of tobacco, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 3d day of June,

EDWARD GEO. LANE. lVitnesses:

JOHN MoGnnnvv, JAoon LANE.

